Jennifer Nitzky, PLA, FASLA, ISA, Allied Affiliate AIA is a Landscape Architect and Certified Arborist with over 27 years of practice in the public realm. As Design Principal of Studio HIP Landscape Architecture, she is skilled in community-oriented design, facilitating hands-on activities in the development of parks, playgrounds, and streetscapes. Since 2002, she has helped the Trust for Public Land transform asphalt New York City schoolyards into green community playgrounds through student-led participatory design at over 225 schools. Jennifer is a Fellow and Trustee of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Vice President of the Fine Arts Federation of New York, a member of the NYC Pollinator Working Group, and a past Manhattan Community Board 7 member.